What the hell are you renting, a cardboard box?? Though, Melbourne's probably cheap 'cause the biggest crag in 50km is Burnley Wall :-) On the other hand, when aaah was young (I'd stroke my beard here but I am clean shaven to try and look younger), cardboard box was considered luxury, not to mention having to lick Blue Mountains clean every morning with tongue...

Chalk! CHALK!?! Wheeeen AAAYE was but a weee lad, we had to crush a mouthful of rocks with our teeth to turn 'em in to dust to use as chalk and it was considered aid if you did it before you got on the climb, was quite the challenge choosing which holds to bite off and which holds you needed to climb with.

On 19/10/2008 hotgemini wrote:>Chalk! CHALK!?! Wheeeen AAAYE was but a weee lad, we had to crush a mouthful>of rocks with our teeth to turn 'em in to dust to use as chalk and it was>considered aid if you did it before you got on the climb, was quite the>challenge choosing which holds to bite off and which holds you needed to>climb with.